Compared with the 9,943,000 people in the fifth national census, the number of permanent residents in the past 10 years has increased by 2,757,800. The scale of permanent residents in the past 10 years is equivalent to an increase in the population of Yuexiu District and Haizhu District. Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics released the main data of the sixth national census on May 16th, 2011, showing that at 0: 00 on November 1st, 2010, the resident population of Guangzhou was 12.7008 million. According to the census data, the average annual growth rate of permanent residents in Guangzhou is 2.48%, which is faster than the national average of 0.57% and the provincial average of 1.90%, but lower than the 4.67% in the last decade (1990-2000).